Current Paediatrics
Volume 16, Issue 7 , Pages 501-505, December 2006

What are we trying to do for disabled children?

  • Allan Colver

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Northumbria Healthcare NHS Trust and School of Clinical Medical Sciences (Child Health), University of Newcastle upon Tyne, Sir James Spence Institute, Royal Victoria Infirmary, Queen Victoria Road, Newcastle upon Tyne NE1 4LP, UK

Summary 

The social model of disability and the new sociology of childhood emphasise, respectively, the relevance of the environment to participation and the importance of quality of life. Such ideas can be readily understood by and shared between parents, young disabled people, professionals and planners; they also make clearer what we are trying to do when supporting disabled children and their families. This article discusses these concepts and emphasises the importance of expressing them in quantitative terms if they are to influence research, planning and clinical practice.

Keywords: Childhood, Disability, Quality of life, Participation, International classification of Impairment, Disability and functioning

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PII: S0957-5839(06)00125-4

doi:10.1016/j.cupe.2006.08.014

Current Paediatrics
Volume 16, Issue 7 , Pages 501-505, December 2006

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